[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox

2014-07-02 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have noticed that there are no binaries for Firefox 30 and Firefox 31 beta. Does anyone know a bit more about this? Regards, A.S.   -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Filebench build errors (Invalid section attribute)

2014-07-11 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
openindiana. I get the following error messages for filebench. Assembler: eventgen.c /var/tmp//ccrzaq70.s line 3 : Invalid section attribute /var/tmp//ccrzaq70.s line 3 : Invalid section attribute /var/tmp//ccrzaq70.s line 3 : Syntax error Near line .section .rodata.str1.1, aMS, @progbits,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE

2014-09-16 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I am not really following every detail of the OpenSXCE debate but I would like to say that we are definitely a very small community and we cannot afford to lose anyone who can contribute to the development of the operating system and the desktop environment. In addition, since we are a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE

2014-09-19 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, After reading this long message You still didn't answer any of my questions. And here are some more: #0.) What do you think gives you the right, to speak for the overall OI (or even OpenSolaris) community, especially in order EXCLUDE A CONTRIBUTOR from it!?? ... many many

[OpenIndiana-discuss] compiling firefox with gcc

2014-09-29 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I would like to compile firefox using gcc instead of the buggy Sun Studio. Unfortunately, it seems that the building tools are wrongly assuming that one should use Sun Studio to compile things. Has anyone success in building firefox with gcc? Regards, A.S. --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox 31.2.0esr broken?

2014-10-15 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
I'm inclined to suspect that you have an LD_LIBRARY_PATH defined somewhere which redirects firefox to use wrong library versions ? I'm inclined to suspect that firefox is totally broken since I am still using OpenSolaris on a machine and there the pluggin worked with no problem but now it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox 31.2.0esr broken?

2014-10-15 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Then why do I have no problems with it, even much less problems than in all the years before with the older crashplayer versions ? No, there's something wrong on your machines, we have a total of 22 machines with oi_151a7 and a9 where this all works absolutely stable. I have no idea! I

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Firefox 34.0.5 build for OpenIndiana

2014-12-23 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
I think we need to build it ourselves. Στάλθηκε από το Yahoo Mail στο Android ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Chm viewer, xchm and Hipster

2014-12-26 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
- admits OI developer. Oracle rubs his hands with a satisfied grin. I still remember that a couple of years ago I tried to install Oracle Solaris on an old laptop and the installer reported that the system had 60 or more CPUs... The truth is that only when Solaris became OpenSolaris only

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Compiling Firefox

2015-02-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Up and over a couple of directories: https://hg.java.net/hg/solaris-desktop~spec-files/file/e9ce74c46890/patches Thanks, I got them! I have noticed that the PulseAudio patches are for version 0.9.22 while the current version is 5.99.3 so I had to apply them...manually. A.S.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Compiling Firefox

2015-02-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Today I tried to compile Firefox on an OI system. One of the problems I am trying to solve is to thew one reported in the following URL https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=899722 Now I would like to know how on Earth the Oracle people are compiling firefox when basic things

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Compiling Firefox

2015-02-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Tons of local patches: https://hg.java.net/hg/solaris-desktop~spec-files/file/e9ce74c46890/base-specs/firefox.spec Where are the patches? I do not see them :-( Also, I suppose the patches assume that one is using the Oracle/Sun studio but personally I prefer to use gcc. I think it is a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Openoffice

2015-01-14 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
I have installed OpenOffice last year but found that I am unable to save any new file or update an existing file. File permissions are okay, if their bug in this release of build of Openoffice. $ pkg list | grep openoffice desktop/office/openoffice 4.1.1-2014.1.2.0

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mozilla Firefox 31.4.0 dumps core

2015-01-22 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have tried Mozilla Firefox 31.4.0 on a machine where I installed OpenIndiana a8 yesterday and it dumps core. Has anyone noticed this? A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Compiling Firefox

2015-02-09 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have used the Solaris patches and after adding some more necessary things and removing some obsolete things I have managed tocompile pulseaudio-5.99.3I have attached the all patches. Now, I will continue with firefox. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone successfully built a new firefox on OI?

2015-03-07 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hi Richard and Apostolos, maybe we can add a wiki page and open a task on the openindiana tracker to follow the progress and dependencies. I see that for the latest esr31, sqlite3 needs an upgrade as we have 3.7.17 in hipster and the requirement is (sqlite3 = 3.8.4.2). Hello, When I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] ANNOUNCE: gcc ported Firefox 37.0b3 now backported to snv_130 x86/x64, Should work on OI/Hipster/S11.[0-3]/S12 etc.

2015-03-26 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
I want to be able build FF and and other things too, by myself locally, so I can contribute in area I can. So having binary-only does not help in that. How shall I understand this? A) You don't want any bins I would like to say a few things related to this matter. Binaries are OK but the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] UPDATE: New FF37 pkg uploaded, Flash Plugins 9/10/11.x ... do work now inside a gcc compiled Firefox now!

2015-03-30 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
BTW: Tell me a good reason why I should upload the src ... (6 still unpaid weeks hard fulltime work for about 100 EUR donations all together .) IMHO there are two ways here. Either we set up a found and give people money for their work provided it is Open Source or you just make a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone successfully built a new firefox on OI?

2015-03-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Maybe first try to reproduce what the Sun/Oracle team does to build every release, using Sun CC, then try to port to GCC? This is not a solution as SunStudio is buggy! For example, I had compiled OpenOfice4 with GCC while SunStudio failed in many cases and I could not proceed! It makes no

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone successfully built a new firefox on OI?

2015-03-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
And of course I must read my messages three times before posting because I always forget words... A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone successfully built a new firefox on OI?

2015-03-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Build tools CompilerVersionCompiler flags /opt/solarisstudio12.3.rsync/bin/ccSun C 5.12 SunOS_i386 Patch 148918-07 2013/08/22-I/usr/X11/include -D__FUNC__=__func__ -xlibmieee -xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all -D__FUNCTION__=__func__ -mt /opt/solarisstudio12.3.rsync/bin/CCSun

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone successfully built a new firefox on OI?

2015-03-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I am trying to compile firefox. So far I haven't managed to finish the configuration part! I am using configure with no options so to discover as many as possible bugs or features possible. a.s. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone successfully built a new firefox on OI?

2015-03-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
I talked to the devs at Firefox at the time and they said that SunStudio was the only compiler that had been used to get Firefox compiled ... I think the assumption in the code is that Solaris = SunStudio. I have compiled XULrunner with GCC and it works. Now, Linux compils with GCC and I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Has anyone successfully built a new firefox on OI?

2015-03-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have the following C++ code #include cstdlib void ::abort(void) { } G++ gives the following error message ‘void abort()’ conflicts with previous using declaration ‘void std::abort()’ Of course SunStudio compiles just fine the code. I have checked and it seems that what the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] UNSUBSCRIBE __/__ Aw: Re: UPDATE: New FF37 pkg uploaded, Flash Plugins 9/10/11.x ... do work now inside a gcc compiled Firefox now!

2015-04-02 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Experiences like this are in fact the reason, why I no longer upload the diffs since 2009 (as I did do from April 2006 on). I wanted to, but every time somebody like you bashes me. On Illumos-discuss it was the same, only worse. I am not really sure about this. You blame me for uploading

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 plugin for Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, A few days ago I downloaded the latest sources of openjdk8in order to build a 32bit binary. The build process finished and it created the required images. Now, there is no file libnpjp2.soso there is no Java plugin for Firefox. I have also checked jdk1.8.0_31 and there is no file

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 plugin for Firefox

2015-05-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Check IcedTea, it works smoothly on my Linux at work.. After compiling OpenJDK 8 32-bit I compiled icedtea-web-1.6 and yes it works (please see the attached screen-shot). I guess OpenJKD and IcedTea should replace JDK in OpenIndiana etc. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 plugin for Firefox

2015-04-29 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Its now named libjavaplugin.so, the old libnpjp2.so is not supported. But that new plugin does not work with the older firefox 31.x series, so stay with Java 7 for that. It works with Firefox 37. $ pwd /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.8.0_31 $ find . -name libjava* ./jre/lib/amd64/libjava_crw_demo.so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 plugin for Firefox

2015-04-29 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
As said, OpenJDK is not Oracle JDK and has NO browser plugins. Some times one makes some intuitive assumptions which obviously most of the times do not hold... Thus I thought it was clear that I was talking about the Oracle JDK. So to be absolutely clear, I cannot find the browser plugin in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 plugin for Firefox

2015-04-29 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
You can only get the plugin for Java 7, Java 8 for Solaris is 64 bit only, because Solaris runs on servers and the plugin was 32 bit only. OK but why is there a plugin for both 32 and 64 bit Linux systems? If you compile OpenJDK, using IcedTea, you should be able to get a plugin working for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 8 plugin for Firefox

2015-04-29 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
The 64-bit binaries do not contain deployment tools such as Java Web Start and Java Plug-in, therefore desktop integration is no longer required. Required? I guess this is a clever way to say that we provide no support for Solaris. But of course they do provide support for Linux. A.S.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Building applications

2015-06-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Briefly I have built the latest version of pulse audio. Search the OI site because I posted the patches there. As about the ECMASCRIPT thing I filled a bug to bugzilla and the new source should include the required patch. Apostolos  ___

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: No longer using OI Desktop

2015-06-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
After reading these post I would like to ask Oracle what they achieved by closing the source code of Solaris? It seems they just wanted to kill Solaris, there is no other reasonable explanation. AS Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo στο Android 

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] No longer using OI Desktop

2015-06-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Just a note to say that I have stopped using OI on the desktop, and have moved to the backup system of Ubuntu on the laptop. Really? I am deeply touched! OI Hipster no longer worked well with Firefox provided on the Mozilla website (every time a dialog box appeared there was a 50% chance

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Libreoffice

2015-06-09 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
http://ptribble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/building-libreoffice-on-tribblix.html Excellent work! Well done! A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: USB 2 performance

2015-07-27 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Wait a moment! The problem is indeed related to the FAT32 implementation (so sad noone took over the task to improve the code but then Solaris drivers are unnecessary complicated) but who said there is an NTFS driver? You have to use fuse to mount NTFS formated disks and I have no idea how to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

2015-10-29 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > Who within the Illumos or OI community is capable of doing the necessary > development to add full USB3 support? > > Does anyone know if there's been discussion of funding someone to > write the necessary driver(s)? > Hello, I have asked these same questions in the past. The problem is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

2015-11-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> From the feedback I've received here, it seems that for better performance > (considering my budget) I will have to go the USB 3 route, which also means > that I may have to abandon a Solaris-based OS. :-( In the immediate term, > that probably means going the Linux + ZFS on LInux route. I'll

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: ANNOUNCE: OpenSXCE-org/FireFox-43-port-for-all-OpenSolaris-distros with gcc4 flash-plugin support released at bin PKG and the src on GitHub

2015-11-17 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Great!  Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android Στις Τετ, 18 Νοε, 2015 στις 5:14, ο χρήστης Martin Bochnig έγραψε: Demo-Screenshots:  http://opensxce.org/.FF/43.0b3/i386/demo_screenshots/ SRC:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: Σχετ: Re: openh264

2015-09-26 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
It seems that the gap between the north and the south is wider than I thought: I included this URL in my initial message and now you ask me to read the Web page... Regards, AS Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo στο Android Από:"Udo Grabowski (IMK)" Ληφθέντα:Σάβ, 26

[OpenIndiana-discuss] openh264

2015-09-25 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Yesterday I realized that there is a new plugin for firefox the openh264 plugin. I tried to compile it and with a few tricks I managed to compile it and to create the plugin. I tried the installation instructions for Fedora https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264 but the plugin does

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: openh264

2015-09-25 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Let me repeat that I have compiled the plugin. Second I do not intend to  distribute anything. Third, the Web page you mention is old and of course I always do my Google search before posting... Regards, AS Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo στο Android

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: firefox

2015-09-21 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
No this is an Oracle contributed binary. BTW we need a fast machine with the latest bits to compile these things... Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo στο Android ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

[OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox

2015-09-20 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Let's hope these will work as expected: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/38.2.1esr/contrib/ A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Xorg sucks!

2015-12-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I am trying to set up this Flatron E1942 monitor but no matter what modelines I have tried, Xorg refuses to start! Of course Windows works with no problem. Either the Xorg we are using is outdated to say the least or it sucks in general! I have also tried the "trick" at

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xorg sucks!

2015-12-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> Hi Apostolos, > > have you tried w/o xorg.conf at all (I know, this is maybe stupid > question, but in past it has helped me to solve some weird issues)? > I have tried to boot with a DVD but again Xorg fails to start. I assume this is the equivalent of trying without a configuration file.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI roadmap (for production)

2015-12-05 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > Two project proposals for student in computer sciences at KTH Stockholm > were formulated for that, it would be great if they are picked. > Great idea! And this is very good idea to have young people getting involved with OI. IMHO this is the only way to get things like KMS, USB3, etc.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] R.I.P: Ian Murdock got murdered by USA-"Police"

2016-01-06 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Martin, Please post whatever you like! And the others: If you do not like what Martin posts just delete the message. We are eons behind most OSes and we cannot afford to lose people who actually contribute important things. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: [oi-dev] OpenSolaris

2016-01-09 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Actually I have installed the latest editionof Hipster to test the driver on thesystem I complained. I will provide feedback next week. AS Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android Στις Σάβ, 9 Ιαν, 2016 στις 17:09, ο χρήστης Aurélien Larcher έγραψε: Hi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] OpenSolaris

2016-01-09 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > Regarding your work on Intel KMS it is indeed important to get more people > to provide testing and feedback. > Maybe Nikola at least will be able to do so but it would be nice to expand > the circle ;) > I am bit confusing. What Martib did is very important for our OS. At the moment we can

[OpenIndiana-discuss] D-sub out of range

2015-11-27 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, There are some machines that run various versions of OpenIndiana. Until recently, these machines had an old PHILIPS 107P5 monitor. Now we have replaced these monitors with LG Flatron E1942 LCDs. Based on the previous xorg.conf file I created a new one but when Xorg starts I always get

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] D-sub out of range

2015-11-27 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Since these files where not attached I will include them in the body of this message. = xorg.conf.flatron === Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] firefox-43.0b7

2015-11-28 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
In https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/3cb2f2b870f4/config/stl-headers one can read that # At build time, each header listed here is converted into a "wrapper # header" that is installed into dist/stl_includes. so could you please send the generated file to try to see what might be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: ANNOUNCE: OpenSXCE-org/FireFox-43-port-for-all-OpenSolaris-distros with gcc4 flash-plugin support released at bin PKG and the src on GitHub

2015-11-18 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Dear Martin, I am writing this message using your Firefox binary. It works great and the flush plugin works just fine. Thank you very much for your contribution. Best regards, Apostolos -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

[OpenIndiana-discuss] opensxce down?

2016-01-11 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
It seems that the site http://opensxce.org is down. And I cannot find the test binaries for Intel KMS. BTW, when one my systems starts it shows a garbled screen and after a while the system reboots. Now, Solaris 11.3 shows exactly the same garbled screen but after a while the screen is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Phoronix: OpenSolaris-Derived OpenIndiana For A Media PC? You Can Now Run Kodi

2016-01-13 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Kodi-Can-Do-OpenIndiana > Great news! But the author correctly points out that >Of course, given the OpenIndiana/Solaris driver situation, this will basically >be of use to >just those on the proprietary NVIDIA graphics driver for best

[OpenIndiana-discuss] libusb-1.0

2016-04-16 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Recently I purchased a new digital camera (it was bargain!). I took a few pictures and I wanted to see if I can use my box to download the images to a hard disk. I used gtkam and gphoton2. Nothing worked. After some google search I realized that only the latest version of gphoton2

[OpenIndiana-discuss] new hipster installation

2016-07-26 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Finally I managed to install hipster on my computer at home. My computer had 3 hard disks (2 SATA and 1 IDE). One of the SATA disks was defective so I copied everything on it on the other SATA disk. I removed the defective disk and I installed a new disk where the new version of the OS

[OpenIndiana-discuss] supported motheboard

2016-07-30 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I am looking for motheboards that can be used to build a system where I can install /hipster. To my disappointment all motherboards are unsupported! All of them have UEFI support which practically means that one cannot install /hipster since there is no GRUP2 support. At any rate, I would

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Fwd: Re[2]: [oi-dev] Stable Intel DRM/KMS Sol12 backport diffs and test bins

2016-08-11 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Well,  as it appears from feedback (lack of) >nobody is using Intel anymore >and so >nobody needs Intel-KMS.>Maybe nobody uses computers anymore and >I >just misssed the news.>Bad luck that in fact less folks appear to be >using >x64 now (2 persons)  than there were >SPARC volunteers for

[OpenIndiana-discuss] audacious

2016-08-11 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have noticed that there is no package for audacious and I wonder why, I have just compiled it and it does work with no problem. Of course, I had to patch some files but I can send the pacthes. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

[OpenIndiana-discuss] almost stupid question about rpools

2016-08-03 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have an almost stupid question: supposeI install OI on a disk. The system has two more disks that have their own rpools.Then, what is the best way to mount thesetwo rpools? Should I rename the oldrpools or should I mount them on altermativeroot folders? Regards,Apostolos Στάλθηκε από

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] nVIDIA driver crash

2016-08-14 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>> >> [ 9482.429] (EE) Dynamic loader error: ld.so.1: Xorg: fatal: > enableIndirectGLX: >> can't find symbol I think this error can be prevented by adding the following to xorg.conf Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor"Monitor0" DefaultDepth24

[OpenIndiana-discuss] VirtualBox 5.0.24

2016-07-10 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have noticed that VirtualBox 5.0.24 has a problem with sound. I know that someone has already reported this. But I have also noticed that when one choses the Host Audio Driver, it always defaults to the Null Audio Driver and this is exactly the reason why there is a problem with

[OpenIndiana-discuss] nVIDIA driver crash

2016-08-06 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, While I was working, Xorg crashed and restarted: [ 9482.429] (EE) Dynamic loader error: ld.so.1: Xorg: fatal: enableIndirectGLX: can't find symbol [ 9482.452] (EE) [ 9482.452] (EE) Backtrace: [ 9482.563] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/amd64/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x41) [0x4fb81c] [ 9482.563] (EE)

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: BIG BREAKTHROUGH! Found needle in hay stack in wrong mb2 hdr, finally boots Sol11.1++ via Grub2 UEFI32

2016-08-09 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Excellent! And since the original postmentioned GRUB2 I think that this shouldreplace the current boot loader. Apostolos Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Πρθ: Re: new hipster installation

2016-07-29 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Last night I realized that my main desktop has a serious problem so I need to buy a new computer. I was thinking of buying one of these motherboards: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4311#sp http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4305#sp Could

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA again

2016-08-17 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> >You can set it to enableIndirectGLX= false in xorg.conf. >~ Ken > I did it: $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf .. Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device

[OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA again

2016-08-17 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I reported my problem to the NVIDIA people who responed: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/955405/solaris/ It seems that something is wrong with the Xorg binary. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mesa 13.0.4 for OpenIndiana

2017-02-07 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Ref: >https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-announce/2017-February/000294.html >We've successfully compiled Mesa 13.0.4 binaries for OpenIndiana. Great! A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-24 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>Apart form Christian references.. ;) (that actually never came into life >or were constantly coming again , for one's frame of reference), What do you mean by Christian references? Also, are there Muslim references? >I only see renaming it to 11.x and stating in Alan's posted PDF link, >S11.x

[OpenIndiana-discuss] python3

2017-01-25 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I am trying to use python3 for a little introductory course and idle is not working. If I try the following program from Tkinter import * root = Tk() w = Label(root, text="Hello, world!") w.pack() root.mainloop() I get python3.4 hello.py Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] python3

2017-01-26 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>> from Tkinter import * >> root = Tk() >> w = Label(root, text="Hello, world!") >> w.pack() >> root.mainloop() > > > Hello. > For python 3 it seems it should be > from tkinter import * Indeed this is correct. However, after changing Tkinter to tkinter I get $ python3.4 hello.py Traceback

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 2031 is near

2017-01-28 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > Topic name (end) is more of an mantra then something. Who's end, what to > end? Basically nothing but reference to "media" bias that was > published > on news sites in previous days. (and we all know how sites and > publicists are click-loving) > Well I know that where is smoke, there is

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Re: 2031 is near

2017-01-29 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Enough! Although I started this, and I regret Idid it, there is no reason to continue. Postto solaris-x86 all the details about the greatwork that Oracle is doing. AS Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android ___ openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-18 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> Why "The End is near"? Sounds the SPARC platform will be continued > beyond 2020, right? Obviously I do not care about SPARC machines... But I see no Solaris 12... It seems that Solaris 11.4 will be the last release of Solaris. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

2017-01-18 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> Really? 2034 still seems so far away now... > > http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-301321.pdf > (pg. 37) > Well I do not see anything about Solaris 12 on page 37. So one can conclude there will be no Solaris 12 release. Personally, I would like to see this

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Looking back at the past 8 months...

2016-08-20 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
I have a question: Someone has noticed thatthere is no 64bit binary libGLEW. Is thisitensional (e.g., there is no reason to havea 64bit binary) or just an omission? Also,the 32bit binary is ancient (from 2007!),are there any plans to update it?  AS Στάλθηκε από το Ταχυδρομείο Yahoo σε Android

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: Looking back at the past 8 months...

2016-08-20 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> I don't understand this. > We provide x11/library/libglew@1.13.0 , which was released 2015-08-10 > (so, it's not so ancient), > and of course, it has 64-bit library. Hello, First of all, when I say libGLEW I mean the one from the following URL: http://glew.sourceforge.net/ Now I see that

[OpenIndiana-discuss] usb3

2017-03-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have tried this live CDhttps://us-east.manta.joyent.com/rmustacc/public/preview/xhci/20161110/oi/OI_Loader_xhci_Text_X86.isoon my machine which has USB3 ports. I plugged in a USB thumbdisk on a USB3 port and it was mountedand I could see the contents of the disk. Then I tried # mdb -ke

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] usb3

2017-03-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>What did you do?  :-) I am sorry but I do not understand! I downloaded the CD, >burn it,inserted in the DVD driver and I booted my system from theDVD. When >the system booted I chose the shell option. Then I pluggedthe USB disk. But I >am sure this something everybody understood, right? A.S.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] usb3

2017-03-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>I meant, "to be blocked in that illumos list". last summer there was a heated >discussion over the need tohave KMS and the intel driver ported to Illumos. >Then I triedto post a question and my message went to /dev/null. I trieda few >more times with the same result. A.S.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] usb3

2017-03-02 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>I don't believe you are banned; rather it looks like you're just not >subscribed to the list.  You need to be subscribed with the address >you are using to send mail in order for your messages to the illumos >developer@ and discuss@ list to be accepted. During last August I tried to send a

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI + MATE + KMS DVD

2016-09-05 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have tried the latest OI + MATE + KMS DVD on a system and I said it works just fine even with VESA. This machine has an old nVIDIA card so the driver does not work with it. I have to install an old version of the driver. However, the machine has an Intel processor so it should detect

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI + MATE + KMS DVD

2016-09-05 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Also, again you are using the buggy Compose file and so I cannot type ; + o to get the Greek letter OMICRON WITH TONOS. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nobody for whom OI/Hipster Mate on i915/KMS is working fine wants to report?

2016-09-06 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, As I reported yesterday I have tested the live DVD on a system that has an Intel processor. The system is running a pre-KMS version of Xorg where the i915 is working. Here are the details: node name: display Vendor: Intel Corporation

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Σχετ: FlashPlayer 23 NPAPI for Linux comeback

2016-09-07 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nobody for whom OI/Hipster Mate on i915/KMS is working fine wants to report?

2016-09-08 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I am on the computer with the old nVIDIA card. I have just booted the DVD and here is what I get: $ isainfo -v 64-bit amd64 applications vmx sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt tscp cx16 sse3 sse2 sse fxsr mmx cmov amd_sysc cx8 tsc fpu 32-bit i386 applications vmx sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt

[OpenIndiana-discuss] __deregister_frame_info_bases

2016-09-08 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I am trying to compile nspluginwrapper but there are a few problems. I think I have fixed all the problems and now it compiles and links with no problem. In order to "install" the linux flash plugin I have to enter the following commands: $ nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Auto-install plugins

[OpenIndiana-discuss] boot failure

2016-08-30 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, I have an old netbook where I had installed OpenSolaris and later on I had upgraded to the second release of OpenIndiana. The system is a bit slow (it has an atom processor) but it is OK for basic things. Recently, I downloaded the latest OpenIndiana DVD, the one with MATE + KMS, and I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] USB3 devices needed for driver testing

2016-08-30 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> good OpenIndiana community member Toomas Soome has created a text media, which > contains USB 3 development bits by Joyent. More instructions can be found > here: > https://www.openindiana.org/2016/08/30/boot-loader-project-demo-v7/ >

[OpenIndiana-discuss] MATE

2016-09-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Today I managed finally to test MATE. It is actually a GNOME desktop but it seems to me it is far more efficient. I think it was a wise idea to replace GNOME 2 with MATE! A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] boot failure

2016-08-31 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Now that we found a solution to Christopher's problem can anybody please let me know what is wrong with Illumos and my netbook? BTW, I tried to send this message to illumos-discuss but the message seems to go to /dev/null I sent a message to the list with no body and it was posted! I would

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] __deregister_frame_info_bases

2016-09-08 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > nspluginwrapper-1.4.4? > Yes that's exactly the version I have used > @Apostolos: Too bad you didn't tell what you changed to come that far, > because by default it won't at least configure. > So I cannot quickly (without hassle) re-create your scenario and hence cannot > tell you what you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] __deregister_frame_info_bases

2016-09-09 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> >I applied your diffs and followed your suggestions, did that manually and >googgled. >So it's all correct. > :-) > >More after the Weekend. >In every way thanks for bringing this up and for your diffs. > Let's hope we will make this work. In pronciple it should work as as it translates all

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The compatibility PARADOX of the old versus the new i915 DRM(and now KMS submodule) kernel driver on newer (but not too new) versus older chipsets

2016-09-11 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Good to know that there is some light at the end of the tunnel! A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ntfs-3g

2016-09-25 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
> > Does this work: > ntfs-3g /dev/dsk/c4t0d0p1 /mnt > # ntfs-3g /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p1 /mnt ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Invalid argument Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Invalid argument The device '/devices/pci@0,0/pci1849,4396@13,2/storage@2/disk@0,0:r,raw' doesn't seem to have a valid

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel panic

2016-10-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Today I saw the following: Oct 4 15:26:18 adalind savecore: [ID 570001 auth.error] reboot after panic: assertion failed: (vp->v_count > 0) && (vp->v_count_dnlc > 0), file: ../../common/fs/vnode.c, line: 852 Does anybody have any idea what this is about? A.S. --

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Add Users in MATE

2016-10-07 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello, Today I installed OI on a computer from tthe OI+MATE+KMS DVD. The interesting thing is that it works just fine with VESA! Of course I installed the nVIDIA driver but it is really impressive. Now, I would like to add one more user to the system but there is no GUI tool to do so. Am I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: TEST-pkg available: Hipster's future VirtualBox-5.1.6-SunOS-amd64-r110634.pkg

2016-09-19 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
>> as promised here finally the binary SVR4 package for use on > Hipster/OpenIndiana, OpenSXCE, XStreamOS or TribbliX from 2015 or newer. >> The ips stuff still needs some polishing and I release the src > hipster-userland integration later today or next night after first some sleep. >> Yes, I

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